The Metamorphosis of the Amazon

The Metamorphosis of the Amazon

Author: Maximilian Fritz Feichtner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1009343076

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A compelling study for readers interested in the environmental history of Latin America, this book sheds light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest and the impact oil development. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.


Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad

Crude Reflections/Cruda Realidad

Author: Lou Dematteis

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Published: 2008-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780872864719

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An indigenous community's landmark legal case to hold Chevron accountable for its contamination of the Amazon


A Living Past

A Living Past

Author: John Soluri

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-02-19

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1785333917

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Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.


Territory

Territory

Author: David Delaney

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1405153059

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This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.


Times Gone By

Times Gone By

Author: Vicente Pérez Rosales

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-05-01

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9780198027829

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These memoirs trace the wild and adventurous life of Pérez Rosales from his childhood up to the 1860s. During that approximately half-century he saw and did more than a dozen ordinary men. At age eleven in Argentina he witnessed the executions of Luis and Juan Jose Carrera. From there, his activities and adventures took him on several journeys on sailing vessels around Cape Horn; to Paris, where he witnessed the July revolution of 1830; to various commercial endeavors including a distillery, the practice of medicine, and cattle smuggling; into service as an advisor to an Argentine warlord; as a miner for precious metals in the north of Chile; as participant in the California Gold Rush in 1849; as director of the government's project for German immigration and settlement in the wild south of Chile; and also as Chilean consul and immigration agent in Hamburg. Around the world, Rosales lived through many of his era's watershed moments. His exciting memoirs offer a chance to relive the rush and chaos of these times--from a much safer vantage.


Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

Practising Feminist Political Ecologies

Author: Wendy Harcourt

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2015-05-14

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 178360090X

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Destined to transform its field, this volume features some of the most exciting feminist scholars and activists working within feminist political ecology, including Giovanna Di Chiro, Dianne Rocheleau, Catherine Walsh and Christa Wichterich. Offering a collective critique of the ‘green economy’, it features the latest analyses of the post-Rio+20 debates alongside a nuanced reading of the impact of the current ecological and economic crises on women as well as their communities and ecologies. This new, politically timely and engaging text puts feminist political ecology back on the map.


Nicaragua, a Decade of Revolution

Nicaragua, a Decade of Revolution

Author: Lou Dematteis

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780393029659

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Photographs portray ten years of conflict between the Sandinistas and the Contras in this Central American country